[WEB4LIB] Re: another tangent to Re: Inline forms in CSS

[Roy Tennant]

I appreciate Thomas' recommendation for SWISH-E and wanted to throw in 
some more information. If you haven't looked at SWISH-E recently (and I 
mean specifically the 2.x version in development), you don't know it. 
Bill Moseley and a handful of others have transformed it, and it is now 
a fast (really fast), powerful, and flexible indexing engine. It not 
only provides the search capability for the Web4Lib archive (newly 
revised to include some spiffy new search options), but for sites such 
as the Apache project (see http://search.apache.org/).

Besides being the search engine under Libweb, it also underlies the 
Librarians' Index to the Internet (http://lii.org/) and KidsClick! 
(http://www.kidsclick.org/). [Aside to Thomas: nope, haven't yet tossed 
the rascals off SunSITE, we're just making it look like we did; swish-
e.org, lii.org, kidsclick.org are all SunSITE]

Like I said, don't judge it based on previous versions. Oh, and the 
price is _still_ right.
Roy

On Thursday, February 28, 2002, at 01:28 PM, Thomas Dowling wrote:

>
>>
>>> If you were running a search engine on your own server that looked at 
>>> the
>>> source HTML files rather than getting them through your server, you 
>>> could
>>> use server-side includes for the navigation bars.  Then they wouldn't 
>>> even
>>
>>> be in the files that get indexed.
>>
>> So, in light of this, do you have any suggestions for search engines 
>> that
>> are either cheap or free?  I think Atomz results are pretty accurate, 
>> but I
>> don't want to "invalidate" my pages just to have the search engine 
>> work.
>> You brought up some great points in regards to that.  Any ideas would 
>> be
>> great!
>
>
> We use SWISH-E: <http://www.swish-e.org/>.  (Aside to Roy: finally threw
> those rascals off of sunsite, eh?).  I found it very easy to set up and 
> run
> an index.  I wrote a short CGI shell for searching, but it may come with
> its own CGI interface by now (we're a release behind).  Aside from 
> indexing
> our site, I use it to index Libweb, and it handles an index of 6300 
> pages
> quite easily.
>
>
> Thomas Dowling
> OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
>
>
>